news & features

• Rights activist who survived Stalin’s gulag dies at 91

• Rabbi Samuel Cohen, longtime leader of JNF, dies

• Church-state debate is brewing as students settle into classrooms

• Two projects pushing bit of Bible every day

• Buchanan book’s ‘aura of anti-Semitism’

• N.Y. cardinal expresses sorrow over Catholics’ anti-Semitism

• New documents show Himmler offered to free Jews to save self

• ‘My Dinner with Yasser’ gets rave reviews for Barak

• Israeli Arab tells investigators of plan to bomb buses

• Ex-Israeli colonel faces forgery trial in Sierra Leone

• Jews are among the dead in Moscow apartment blast

• One Russian town epitomizes Jewish reconnection

• Barak comments on Netanyahu probe

• Arab groups call for boycott of everything Disney

• Symbolism sits at center of Barak’s visit to Berlin

• Mideast Report

• Parents Place offers several fall classes

• Area rabbis praise pluralistic seminary planned for L.A.

• Jewish-Buddhist discussion set

• Beach bonfire toasts 5760, roasts kosher marshmallows

• Black belt rabbi to teach aikido class

• ‘Comparing faiths’ begins in October

• Gen-Xer shows great-grandpa’s Holocaust art on Web

• Jewish agencies ready for Y2K, upgrading computers

• Area JCRC lobbies Clinton to cut ties to Indonesia

• Growing West Marin congregation celebrates with art

• Congregants fill school-supply bags for disadvantaged

• Program aims to turn emigres into community leaders

• On holiest day, hundreds of Jews flocked to cinema

• Rabbi speaks out at Oakland forum on gun violence

• Women’s study group to read short stories

• Bad winter puts freeze on California etrog harvest

• S.F. money buys controversial ads in Israel

columns

• Time in the fragile sukkah can strengthen one’s faith

opinions & letters

• Enjoy a sweet, sweet Sukkot

• Even ‘good’ gossip can do nothing but drag us down

• Sukkot celebrates hospitality, enduring value of love

supplements

• 20th-century memories: WWII, birth of TV, moon walk

• Author says surviving Holocaust was roll of the dice

• Seniors turn Jewish passion toward the classroom

• Melton Mini-Schools alter adult learning